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In MOVING PEOPLE: Raja Feather Kelly on His "Dog Day Afternoon," His Greatest Challenge, and His Signature Item of Apparel, "One of the projects I've most enjoyed was making my first evening…
In IMPRESSIONS: And Then We Danced, "The film demands that you, the viewer, engage immediately and unceasingly with the protagonists and their plight, leaving you drained and astounded." …
In IMPRESSIONS: Martine Gutierrez's "Circle" at Performance Space New York, "The air in the make-shift laboratory becomes fraught with expectation and uneasiness. Staring at a living crea…
In Alison Cook Beatty Dance's "Artists in Motion" at the Salvatore Capezio Theater " Peridance " Alison Cook-Beatty dreams up worlds that dance...In Beatty's evocative presentations, sculptu…
In IMPRESSIONS: "The Sun Still Burns Here" by Kate Wallich + The YC X Perfume Genius at the Joyce Theater, "Wallich establishes an intuitive, sensual movement language to match the music.…
The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Streets: Taking on Yellowface in Classic Choreography at the 92nd Street Y with Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin, "Final Bow for Yellowface asks those in power …
In IMPRESSIONS: nia love "g1(host): lostatsea" at Gibney: "Against a soundscape of crashing waves, clanging metal, and haunting cello music played by Nioka Workman, love dives through the sp…
In IMPRESSIONS: Dimitris Papaioannou's "The Great Tamer" at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, "Although the pacing feels painfully, painstakingly slow, the visual gags, many quoting or comme…
In IMPRESSIONS: "Odeon" by Ephrat Asherie Dance at the Joyce Theater, "Odeon unfolds as a series of vignettes, moving from group sequences with tight footwork and byzantine patterns to ch…
In IMPRESSIONS: Big Dance Theater's "The Road Awaits Us" at NYU Skirball Center, "Throughout the evening, Parson exposes artifice. She removes the stage's wings, displays costume changes,…
IN POSTCARDS: Meet and Follow, NYC's PMT Dance, the House Head Session, and the Crazy Natives Crew: "The session is open to anyone who likes to move, whether you live in NY or are just passi…
In IMPRESSIONS: "Sènsa" by Paul Maheke with Nkisi and Ariel Efraim Ashbel at Abrons Arts Center, Co-commissioned with Performa 19 Biennial and Red Bull Arts New York, "It's dark and i…
In IMPRESSIONS: Curet Performance Project's "Aspectos" at Center for Performance Research, "Employing a blend of classical modern dance and Puerto Rican-inspired movements, Curet creates …
On Friday, November 1, more than 200 LGBTQ+ artists and allies packed into The Center (208 W. 13th St.) for the 2019 Queer|Art Annual Party.
In IMPRESSIONS: Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures' "The New Frontier: my dear America (pt. 1)" at Danspace Project,
"She morphs and shape-shifts, flexing and collapsing, grooving, softenin…
In MOVING PEOPLE: Alicia Graf Mack on Carmen de Lavallade, "Revelations," and Leading the Dance Division at the Juilliard School. Alicia Graf Mack says, "I've tried to live a life…
Center for Performance Research Announces 10 Artists-in-Residence For 2020! Find out who they are.
In IMPRESSIONS: Black Grace at the Joyce Theater, "Gathered in a circle, facing inward, the dancers take up various gestures that will become motifs. Pressing their palms together, they c…
"Some survivors say they gained 'a new lease on life.' I feel differently about that," says Grays. "I never felt as though I started over; I simply continued on the path that I was mea…
In IMPRESSIONS: American Ballet Theatre in Balanchine, Bennett & The Beach Boys, "Juxtaposing classical ballet and contemporary social dance may not seem revolutionary today, but when…
In IMPRESSIONS: BalletX's "The Little Prince" at the Joyce Theater, "Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's choreography showcases luscious leg extensions, intertwining pas de deux between all genders, …
Dance Lab New York (DLNY) Announces New Choreographers & Dancers In Partnership With The Joyce Theater Foundation.
David Orr, Founder Of Boston Moving Arts Productions, On Dance's Power To Open The Floodgates Of Emotion
In Margie Gillis on her "Rewilding" and its Lincoln Center Premiere with the Paul Taylor American Modern Dance at David H. Koch Theater, Gillis asks the artists to embrace all the vocabu…
